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Author : Valeriĭ Chalidze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043857312
Author : Peter Reddaway
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89004053815
Oversættelse af det uofficielle russiske nyhedsblad "A Chronicle of Current Events (Nos 1-11), produceret af en anonym kollektiv gruppe, som dokumenterer russiske brud på menneskerettigheder
Author : Joshua Rubenstein
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UCAL:B3868861
Author : Kirsten Kuptz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783638278348
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Region: Russia, grade: A, Johns Hopkins University, language: English, abstract: ‘Other civilizations, including more "successful" ones, should exist an infinite number of times on the "preceding" and the "following" pages of the Book of the Universe. Yet this should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world of ours, where, like faint glimmers of light in the dark, we have emerged for a moment from the nothingness of dark unconsciousness of material existence. We must make good the demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly perceive.’ (From the Nobel Lecture of Andrei Sakharov, 1975) Dissent in the Soviet Union was not well known: neither in the West nor in Soviet society itself. Prior to the end of total terror with the death of Stalin in 1953, dissent in the Soviet Union could not be expressed publicly. In his first years in power, Khrushchev tolerated a certain degree of free discussion and even released some political prisoners. Soon, however, the ‘refreezing of the thaw’ began, especially under Brezhnev; critics became too outspoken, and demands for free expression exceeded ‘acceptable limits’. The Communist Party regained absolute control over the flow of information and ideas, and over all kinds of literature. Yet despite the ideological penetration and strict surveillance of society through the authorities and the KGB in particular, some people were able to fight for their rights and for a rival vision of freedom and justice. It is debatable whether the term ‘movement’ can be appropriately applied to dissent in the Soviet Union since it lacked any organizational structure or formal program. That said, the term is commonly used to describe the group of people, emerging in the early 1960s, who raised their voice against policies of the regime. Soon, the physicist Andrei Sakharov was considered to represent the spirit of the movement: ‘he embodies the human rights movement in his own person: self-sacrifice, a willingness to help persons [...] who are illegally prosecuted; intellectual tolerance, unwavering insistence on the rights and dignity of the individual, and an aversion to lies and to all forms of violence (Alexeyeva 1985: 332).’ A father of the Soviet hydrogen-bomb, Sakharov’s life came to a radical turning-point when his interest shifted from physics - which had placed him among the elite of Soviet society - to politics - which converted him into a nonconformist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. [...]
Author : Albert Szymanski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015027241341
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Author : Emma Gilligan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134348497
Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after becoming active in dissident circles, was arrested by the KGB, tried, imprisoned and subjected to internal exile. After his release, he continued to work for human rights, eventually becoming chairman of the Soviet Human Rights Committee and chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, in which positions he was extremely influential in framing human rights provisions in post-Communist Russia. He subsequently took President Yeltsin to task for human rights failings, eventually resigning in protest. This book, by tracing Kovalyov's political career, shows how human rights developed in Russia in late Soviet and post Soviet times.
Author : Council of Europe. Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287169470
Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Peace Prize winner and physicist, was a leading human rights activist in the Soviet Union, and one of the world's great thinkers. His principled messages contributed To The non-violent, revolutionary changes of 1989, and continue to influence work in favour of justice and human rights today. This book, containing selected human rights texts, Is published as part of a series of initiatives highlighting how acutely relevant his ideas remain in our time.
Author : Ludmilla Alexeyeva,Li͡udmila Alekseeva
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0819561762
Traces the history of the struggles of individuals and organizations for civil rights in the Soviet Union
Author : Sarah B. Snyder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139498920
Two of the most pressing questions facing international historians today are how and why the Cold War ended. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists committed to human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe made the topic a central element in East-West diplomacy. As a result, human rights eventually became an important element of Cold War diplomacy and a central component of détente. Sarah B. Snyder demonstrates how this network influenced both Western and Eastern governments to pursue policies that fostered the rise of organized dissent in Eastern Europe, freedom of movement for East Germans and improved human rights practices in the Soviet Union - all factors in the end of the Cold War.
Author : Jeri Laber
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586489663
After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world. The Courage of Strangers tells how Laber became a founder and the executive director of Helsinki Watch, which grew to be Human Rights Watch, one of the world's most influential organizations. She describes her secret trips to unwelcoming countries, where she met with some of the great political activists of the time. She also recalls what it was like to come of age professionally in an era when women were supposed to follow rather than lead; how she struggled to balance work and family; and how her fight for human rights informed her own intellectual, spiritual and emotional development. This story of the birth of the human rights movement is also a sweeping history of dissent and triumph in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Elegantly written, full of passion, humor and political wisdom, it is exciting history as well as a moving, entertaining, inspiring story of a woman's life.
Author : Sarah B. Snyder
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231547215
The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens—civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs sought to secure—many Americans saw inconsistencies between domestic and foreign policy and advocated for a new approach. The activism that arose from the upheavals of the 1960s fundamentally altered U.S. foreign policy—yet previous accounts have often overlooked its crucial role. In From Selma to Moscow, Sarah B. Snyder traces the influence of human rights activists and advances a new interpretation of U.S. foreign policy in the “long 1960s.” She shows how transnational connections and social movements spurred American activism that achieved legislation that curbed military and economic assistance to repressive governments, created institutions to monitor human rights around the world, and enshrined human rights in U.S. foreign policy making for years to come. Snyder analyzes how Americans responded to repression in the Soviet Union, racial discrimination in Southern Rhodesia, authoritarianism in South Korea, and coups in Greece and Chile. By highlighting the importance of nonstate and lower-level actors, Snyder shows how this activism established the networks and tactics critical to the institutionalization of human rights. A major work of international and transnational history, From Selma to Moscow reshapes our understanding of the role of human rights activism in transforming U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s and highlights timely lessons for those seeking to promote a policy agenda resisted by the White House.
Author : Miroslav Marinovič
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Dissenters
ISBN : 9781580469814
Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UCR:31210024743302
Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674256521
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Author : Jeri Laber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004470571
The intimate, beautifully told memoir of a woman who helped create Human Rights Watch and bring about the fall of Communism--and in the process became free and independent herself.